Snoopy and Friends

And finally the group of friends is complete!

The last addition to the group are Snoopy and Woodstock

All the patterns are now available in the Free Patterns section.

And now that the group is complete, I can share with you the entire wall hanging:

Each character has his/her own quote (in Italian...)... I will quilt the cartoon bubbles as soon as I get more familiar with free motion quilting :) 

And if you try any of the blocks, please leave me a comment below, or send me a picture of the block or publish the block on the FiS Flickr Group (or all of them :) ). I would love to see them!!

A funny witch and selvage heaven :)

Here we are with Block number 9 of the Mystery Quilt.

If you have any other question, don't hesitate to ask... I may not be able to answer, but I will do my best to find a reasonable answer :)

The Nineth Block of the Quilt is Madam Mim.

You can find the pattern in the Free Patterns section.

Have fun, and post a comment below for any question/advice/comment!

And if you tried any of the blocks, please leave me a comment below, or send me a picture of the block or publish the block on the FiS Flickr Group (or all of them :) ). I would love to see your work!!

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And on a different topic, do you remember the Selvage-for-Blog swap that I mentioned few times in past posts? I thought about this swap because this was the status of my selvage collection:

Melissa was so kind to tell me that she had some selvages for me and when her package came... ooooh myyyyy gooooooddddneeees :) I was super-surprised... there were soooooo many selvages... of many different sizes, with many colors, and wow... I was in selvage heaven... this is my selvage collection now :)

And you cannot even see them all because they are hanging on top of each other!! :) isn't that amazing?? I just love them all :) and I will soon start putting them together... stay tuned to see my selvage blocks updates :)

Surrounded by ... Linus Van Pelt

This week I almost forgot to post my progress on the Star Surround QAL! But here they are

The Block Surround.

I put the surrounds next to the star but I didn't sew them together... that's next week task I assume :)

The directional prints is kind of weird somewhere but I didn't want to fix that :) it's a scrappy quilt after all... and also the fabric in the surround is somewhere mixed up... but I like the final effect anyway!

As last week I can say that I am pretty happy about the points... they are not all super-perfect, but many of them are and the other are pretty close I think.

And as usual, let me introduce a new member of the Peanuts/Snoopy family: Linus Van Pelt

I am so excited that the next block of the Peanuts series will be the last... and then I will share with you the final layout of my wall hanging and all the patterns!!

Star between the stars: Sally Brown

And the task for another week of the Star Surround QAL is done!

The Center Stars.

And this time no particular life lessons... everything went smoothly... actually I did the first star alone and then the other three chain stitching them all together... this time the "assembly line" process worked perfectly... maybe because Melissa in her tutorial said that she does not sew more than one center at the time... so since I always have to do something in the opposite way, my brain worked perfectly doing that this time... I don't know... I don't understand my brain either ;)

I am pretty happy about the point... they are not all super-perfect, but many of them are and the other are pretty close I think.

And as usual, let me introduce a new member of the Peanuts/Snoopy family: Sally Brown

And let me remind you about my "cry for help" :) (click the button for details)

A King, a cardinal and two yellow guys

Also this weekend 3 patterns are going to be released! Hurray!!

First Block number 8 of my Disney Mystery Quilt



The Eight Block of the Quilt is The Future King.

You can find the pattern in the Free Patterns section.

Have fun, and post a comment below for any question/advice/comment!

And if you tried any of the blocks, please leave me a comment below, or send me a picture of the block or publish the block on the FiS Flickr Group (or all of them :) ). I would love to see your work!!

Then Minion 1 have been tested by HerbMyst (thank you so much!!) and now is ready to be officially released!

You can find the pattern in the Free Patterns section.

Have fun, and post a comment below for any question/advice/comment!

And since a Minion cannot be alone, here is his tall friend
(need to be TESTED... so it's not the official release,
but if someone wants to try, you can download the pattern here).
UPDATE: the pattern has been tested and fixed
and it can be found in the Free Patterns page.








And this weekend I also pieced this cute guy

This is from a FiS designer (liljabs) and you can find the pattern in the FiS/Sports section.
The pattern is for a 10'' square but for mysterious reasons when I printed it (gazillion of months ago) I reduced to 60% and I have no idea why... that was not a great idea on a such detailed pattern... there were very very small pieces and this is the reason why the area around the eye is white: in the printed pattern I didn't realize that was grey and once it was done I didn't have the courage to rip those tiny itsy bitsy pieces of fabric on itsy bitsy pieces of paper :) So I figured that it will be a special and unique cardinal :) and I actually love that pattern, so thank you liljabs for such a nice pattern!!

Flying with Charlie Brown (and more life lessons)

And the task for another week of the Star Surround QAL is done!

Flying geese.

And again these are the lessons I learned from this task:

1. lesson from last week: between the different steps of the tutorial do something else :) this pushes me to have good progress also on my Peanuts/Snoopy wall hanging (!!!) so let me introduce you Charlie Brown

The pattern will be available here as soon as his friends are ready to join the party :)

2. lesson from last week: try the steps with one unit first. Which worked perfectly! I made my first 4 flying geese in a very fast and efficient way... so I got carried away by the thought "maybe I can follow the assembly line process"... and a voice in my head screamed "noooooo, don't do it, go on with this approach"... did I listen to that voice??!?... obviously no... I took 4 big squares, aligned the small squares, pinned and sew all of them... great... then I cut the them apart, I cut the diagonal line and HORROR OF HORRORS, I realized that I sew the small squares on the wrong side of the big squares!... I looked at the chain of the others squares and 3 of them were wrong in the same way!! only 1 of them was ok... and I already cut one apart!!

Have you ever had one of those moments when you want to bang your head against the wall because you didn't listen to yourself?? I had one of those... because now I had to rip 6 longs seams and two of them on triangles pieces that I had to reassemble in the right way later on...

Luckily I remembered this wonderful block

http://suleon.blogspot.de/2012/03/sew-out-loud-qal-keep-calm-block.html

I took a deep breath, I ate a small piece of chocolate and I had all those "fast" seams undone :( luckily the voice in my head was not completely ignored, and I chain-pieced only 4 squares... it could have been much worse :)

So the lesson for this week is: listen to yourself! your instinct is (most of the time) right :)


And now, I need your help!! Please!!

I just recently found some selvage blocks that I would really love to make... and I realized that I have very few nice selvage in my stash :( so I thought to organize a "Selvage for Block swap".

These are the rules:
1. if you have some nice selvage pieces and you are willing to send them to me, just drop me an email at tweloq at gmail dot com (the parts of the selvages I am looking for are the parts with the text and the ones with the circles with the colors used in the fabric... also the colorful parts of the selvage without text are ok, but I am trying to keep the look of my block uniform :) and if there is at least 1/4 of the fabric above the strip of selvage itself that would be even better... but if not, that's fine too :) )
2. in exchange for the selvage you send me, I can send you a finished block! any block you want (pretty much) :) you can choose one of my blocks, any of the Fandom in Stitches blocks, or even some more classic blocks (max size 12 inches)... I am more comfortable in doing paper piecing blocks, but I am willing to try more traditional ones too :)
3. we can agree on the block/fabric choice/etc. by email... and as soon as I receive the selvages I will make and send you the block.

I hope many of you will help me realizing my dream of a selvage quilt :) :)


Just a concluding remark about the Flying geese task: the no-waste-method is pretty quick and easy but it does not allow you to trim and straighten the final block... which means that some of mine look kind of wonky... not too much, I hope... I think some of my points will not match perfectly, but I guess it's fine. And another thing is that (as you can see in the lower left corner of my picture above) directional fabric get cut half with horizontal and half with vertical orientation... I don't know if I messed up something with the instructions but I couldn't figure out a way to do them all one way... not that it matters for my scrappy/whimsical design... but it's good to keep that in mind for my future designs (if I want to obtain a specific effect with the direction of the fabric :) )